OttawaOne Conservative committee chair’s "just a little mischief" ....... is the much-hoped-for answer to at least one liveblogger’s most heartfelt pleas to the universe -- and she doesn’t care how...
OttawaAn ITQ poll: Stick a blue-ribboned fork in it ...I know, I know -- you’re all going to scold ITQ for being so darned cynical, but it’s hard to see how this leaders’ panel/working...
OttawaITQ Public Service Announcement: All lobbyist disclosures not created equalI was actually going to write about this last year, which was when I first became aware of what is, I suspect, a largely unknown...
OttawaOfficial Senate speculation open thread - with a poll, even!But first, a few words from - yes, again - Peter Van Loan: Ahem. Yes. But that was before The Crisis. Everything is different...
OttawaCommittee business: Eleventy-member committees? Okay, that works too.Okay, so it’s not quite the ITQ proposal which would have bumped opposition-chaired committees up to thirteen members, but...
OttawaCPC ConventionWatch 2008 – ITQ Tip of the DayIf anyone wants to compare the resolutions to be debated at next week’s convention to the Policy Declaration that came out of...
OttawaThe Ten Percenter Solution: Don’t have party officials comment on ostensibly parliamentary mattersOtherwise, it looks - well, like you’re tacitly admitting to pretty much exactly the kind of partisan anticking that you’re...
GeneralBlackBerry Liberation FrontA quick note for anyone out there who may be having trouble reading ITQ (or, come to think of it, any of the macleans.ca blogs) on...
GeneralThe baby brides of Bountiful aren’t just going to free themselves.Never let it be said that this is not a blog of its word . By calling on the Conservatives to take their trademark "tough on...
GeneralOh, and one more teeny tiny bit of advice for the Tory spin teamYou might want to think twice about having Peter Van Loan repeat, with Tourettes-like fervour, that the Conservatives are the only...